Intimate outsiders : the harem in Ottoman and Orientalist art and travel literature /
Comparative study of 19th-century representations of Ottoman harems that considers both the tradition of British paintings and writings about harems as well as the perspectives of Ottoman women who commissioned their own harem portraits.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2007.
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Colección: | Objects/histories.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- pt. 1. John Frederick Lewis's Harem paintings.
- The languid lotus-eater
- "Mr. Lewis's oriental paradises"
- pt. 2. British women's travelogues.
- Pleasures in detail
- Being seen
- Sartorial adventures and satiric narratives
- pt. 3. Harem portraiture.
- The politics of portraiture behind the veil
- Oriental dreams.